Henrique Bastos
RSS Feed25 years of Python. Then AI bit me. Now I'm drinking from the firehose.
I'm a senior backend engineer working on payment systems and distributed workflows. I write about software design, Python, AI as leverage, and whatever else I'm thinking through. No marketing, no promotion — just thoughts shared in the hope of starting conversations with people who care about the same things.
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The definitive guide to setup my Python workspace
An opinionated setup for a Python workspace on Unix using pyenv and virtualenvwrapper — one Jupyter, one iPython per major version, and clean isolation for everything else.
Recent Writing
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The Future is Symbolic - A Providential Review
A track-by-track review of 2mørVs' The Future is Symbolic — and a personal account of how the album, Jonathan Pageau's work, and a chain of providential events shaped my faith.
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The Art of Code Organization
Two strategies for structuring code — affinity vs similarity — and why the way you organize matters more than the framework you're using.
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How ChatGPT quickly helped me understand Django's source code
A transcript of an unexpectedly efficient session walking through Django's model field internals with ChatGPT — DeferredAttribute, contribute_to_class, and virtual fields.